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Exam CISSP topic 1 question 2 discussion

Actual exam question from ISC's CISSP
Question #: 2
Topic #: 1
[All CISSP Questions]

When assessing the audit capability of an application, which of the following activities is MOST important?

  • A. Identify procedures to investigate suspicious activity.
  • B. Determine if audit records contain sufficient information.
  • C. Verify if sufficient storage is allocated for audit records.
  • D. Review security plan for actions to be taken in the event of audit failure.
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

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zo24
Highly Voted 8 months, 1 week ago
to me its B, the most important is the scope of the audit, the value it brings, is it sufficient to what the organization need inorder to call or even perform an actual audit. The requirement of disk size we can adjust as we needed, it can only be used to support the content of the information that the application can gather.
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aape1
Highly Voted 9 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: C
C, the keyword is "Capabilities". Remember the CIA, this question is about availability, not integrity. It would have been B if it was about the accuracy of the application.
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Ramye
Most Recent 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Selected Answer: B
Question is asking, does the application has audit capability? And that is to make sure the application audit logs contain sufficient information.
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pigon
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Though both are important, but if can only choose 1 option, then B is more important. Cos if audit records do not contain sufficient information, then no matter how much storage alloacted also no use. Hence B is more correct.
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ap0ls
3 months ago
Not applicable now. None of these questions came up during my exam last Tuesday (April 2, 2024). Use the questions as guide in learning but don't depend that these will come up in the exam
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f270069
5 days, 5 hours ago
none of the 500?
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3008
3 months, 2 weeks ago
B is answer
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AZSID
4 months ago
B is the correct option here as sufficient and valuable evidence / traces is the most focal point in Audit activities for Critical Applications.
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Kyanka
4 months ago
Selected Answer: B
B is correct. The Audit records need to be sufficient. Audit storage is not the responsibility of the application.
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SKainth
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
Because the primary purpose of an audit is to provide a RECORD OF ACTIVITIES that can be used to identify and investigate suspicious or inappropriate activities. If the audit records do not contain sufficient information, it would be difficult to achieve this goal.
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TashT13
5 months ago
B makes the most sense. All others are irrelevant if audit does nit contains sufficient data
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JoeandHeidi
10 months, 2 weeks ago
So is the B or C the correct answer? I would say B if I was sitting for the test. But with this picking C as the correct answer, it's causing unwanted doubt.
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wingcheuk
1 year ago
I will pick B for answer. In domain 7, it says some audit examples including inspection audits, access review audits, user entitlement audits etc.The required information for each type of audit may different. The information is not ONLY referred to the audit log of an application. The audit record could be the company rules or even a physical log sheet paper of the data center. So sufficient information is most important. Answer C may be the second best but it is limited for the digit audit logs.
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vorozco
1 year ago
Meant to say I'm going with B. So my previous comment should read as... Going with B. The textbook focuses on auditing capabilities requiring sufficient information. CISSP AIO Exam Guide: Ninth Edition pg. 741-743
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Ramye
2 weeks, 5 days ago
How is it C when capabilities focuses on requiring sufficient information?
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CPT_Pepper
1 year, 1 month ago
The question is asking specifically about the audit capability of the APPLICATION, as opposed to the effectiveness of an audit record. You cannot consider the content of the audit log if the application cannot capture and STORE logs FIRST. Of course audit log content will drive size allocation but the question was asking about the APPLICATION.
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dumdada
1 year, 1 month ago
C doesnt imply the app cant store ANY log. Moreover, what's the point of having plenty of audit log storage place if the logs themselves don't have anything of value? B is obviously the right answer. You can have terabytes of audit log space but if they only capture useless crap the audit capabilities are crap as well. BBBB.
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KelvinYau
1 year, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: B
B 100%, sufficient information is most important.
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jackdryan
1 year, 2 months ago
B is correct.
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NJALPHA
1 year, 3 months ago
B-Determine if audit records contain sufficient information
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jackdryan
1 year, 2 months ago
B is correct
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